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Back in fifth or sixth grade at Immaculate Conception School, Sister Mary Espantosa ran us through the reading curriculum by telling us that books are generally divided into two classes: fiction and non-fiction. We’d wonder: Is that all? Either it’s fiction or it’s not?

The following editorial recently appeared in the Jacksonville (Fla.) Daily News.

It’s as if North Korean President Kim Jong Un is doing one of those Verizon commercials repeatedly asking the rest of the world, “Can you hear me now?”

If there were any doubt before, the answer now that North Korea has successfully test-fired a missile capable of reaching the interior of the United States is “Oh yes, we hear you now. And we don’t like what we are hearing.”

Wire and staff reports‘Cow’ fire officially put out
Fire managers on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest called the lightning-caused Cow Fire out Monday at noon.

The fire started on July 18th in slash and dead and down timber within the burn scar of the 2000 Viveash Fire. Natural drainages and the rocky landscape helped fire crews contain the small fire to around seven acres. The Cow Fire also received a significant amount of monsoonal moisture.

At least three suspects are being sought after a pair of Seventh Street businesses were robbed at gunpoint, police say.

The Las Vegas Police Department issued a news release describing a July 30 armed robbery at Hibbett Sports and a similar incident Aug. 2 at Bealls department store, located in the same shopping center on Seventh Street at Legion Drive.

As of Tuesday at press time, no suspects are in custody in either incident. Las Vegas police say it believes the two robberies are connected.

Fall sports season practices are a couple weeks old, and season openers are days away.

With that in mind, local high school athletic administrators are reminding student-athletes they need to have sports physicals in order to participate.

“Parents and athletes of WLVHS, WLVMS and Valley — friendly reminder, you must have a physical before you can start practicing or participating,” West athletic coordinator Richard Tripp said via a news release.

Cristhian Adames, who hadn’t hit the baseball safely in his last eight trips to the plate, found himself up to bat with two outs in the top of the ninth, the score knotted up at 2-2 courtesy of teammate Noel Cuevas’ RBI single on the previous play.

A line drive triple to right field later, Adames was on third base, three runs batted in richer.

Adames’ Isotopes went on to a 5-2 victory over New Orleans, coming back from a 2-1 deficit going into its final at-bat.